Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

2 months ago | scroll.in | Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

Irawati Karve, regarded by many as India’s first female anthropologist and certainly the first woman to occupy a university position in the discipline, ought to be a household name. While some may know her for Yuganta, a series of Marathi essays examining the morality of figures in the Mahabharata that won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1968 and received great acclaim in its English translation as well, Karve’s life (1905–1970) and work encompass much more.

Jan 19, 2025 | scroll.in | Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

At the start of 2024, it seemed as if a massive victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Indian General Elections was a given. When the BJP turned in a middling performance, falling below the halfway majority mark in the Lok Sabha, it meant that – for the first time under Prime Minister Narendra Modi – the party would actually be reliant on coalition partners to remain in power, while also facing a much more powerful opposition block in Parliament.

Oct 23, 2024 | scroll.in | Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

Diarrhoea, as Dr Gagandeep Kang often says, tends to be considered a “solved problem”. Modern science knows why it happens, knows how to fix it, and has ways of preventing it from becoming a genuine medical threat. And yet it continues to be a major cause of death or serious illness for hundreds of thousands of children around the world, every year. Kang has spent decades attempting to tackle this troubling dichotomy.

Jul 26, 2024 | southasianvoices.org | Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

अपने पहले पाँच वर्षों के सफल कार्यकाल के दम पर, 2004 के चुनाव में भारतीय जनता पार्टी (भाजपा) ने अत्यंत उत्साहपूर्वक वापस विजयी होने की अपेक्षा कि की थी | उस चुनाव के दौरान भाजपा का नारा था “इंडिया शाइनिंग” और सभी जनमत सर्वेक्षणों ने भाजपा की आरामदायक विजय का पूर्वानुमान लगाया था | परन्तु, इस आत्मविश्वास के बावजूद, भाजपा को उनचुनावों में पराजय मिली और अगले दशक तक उसे भारतीय संसद के विपक्षी दल के रूप में लगातार अपना स्थान ग्रहण करना पड़ा | यह एक मनोवैज्ञानिक टूटन के समान था: ‘इंडिया शाइनिंग’ को...

Jun 14, 2024 | southasianvoices.org | Rohan Venkat |Mohd Tahir |Raju Rajagopal |Ria Chakrabarty |Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

In 2004, the Bharatiya Janata Party entered Indian elections on a high, expecting to be brought back to power on the back of its first-ever five-year term in charge. Its campaign slogan was ‘India Shining.’ Opinion polls forecasted a comfortable victory. The party exuded confidence, but the results were a massive shock as the BJP was voted out and would spend the next decade on the Opposition benches of the Indian Parliament.